Kids' NEWSTIME—A sampler of America's children's daily newspaper first published in the early 1990's and restarted on November 4,1995!  Kids, how many newspapers can you read a day?....... This is today's final edition:         VOLUME XIII....................... NUMBER 16............FEBRUARY 7,2012   * News... Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announces that he is following through on his August, 2011 Complete College Georgia plan by introducing a new college scholarship, the REACH (Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen) Scholarship, which is based upon qualified students’ financial need and which is due to be funded by private citizens and companies responding to fund-raising requests by an organization inside the Georgia Student Finance Commission; the Governor says that, with in excess of 60 percent of all job openings expected to require some education after high school by 2018, it is important for students in middle school to apply themselves to their studies, get good marks, stay free from crime, behavior and drug issues, become REACH Scholars, and cooperate with available mentors, so they can receive an annual tuition scholarship of $2,500, to supplement Pell and other based-on-need college scholarships necessary to pay college costs.                * Business...The NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) stock exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies today, shares of 1,202 companies increased in value, shares of 1,339 companies decreased in value, and the value of 119 companies’ shares of stock did not change, while the shares of 91 companies set records by reaching new 52-week high levels and the shares of  5 set records by reaching new low levels during the same 52-week period. * Sports...The National Hockey League (NHL) reports, as Kids’ Newstime went to press, that, in the Eastern Conference, the New York Rangers lead the Atlantic Division, Washington leads the Southeast Division, and Boston leads the Northeast Division; meanwhile, Detroit (Central Division), Vancouver (Northwest), and San Jose (Pacific) are the division leaders in the Western Conference.

* Weather...The National Weather Service forecasts that the coldest  spot in the Lower 48 States tomorrow morning is expected to be Clayton Lake, Maine, at minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit.  Check the map, kids!   * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today—based upon the Center's measurement of universal time—were of magnitude 5.3 in the Far East (39 miles west-southwest of Cebu, Cebu, Philippines) and, outside the region of the Philippines, 5.0 also in the Far East (29 miles east-northeast of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan).   (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.)  * Today in history... 69 years ago: February 7,1943—The U.S. government announces that it will soon be ordering the rationing of shoes during World War II, as part of the civilian sacrifices that will be necessary to win the war over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

* A Quotation worth remembering...by Franklin D. Roosevelt (32ND U.S. President): "American industry has searched the outside world to find new markets—but it can create on its very doorstep the biggest and most permanent market it has ever … seen.  It needs the reduction of trade barriers to improve its foreign markets, but it should not overlook the chance to reduce the domestic trade barrier right here—right away—without waiting for any treaty.  A few more dollars a week in wages, a better distribution of jobs with a shorter working day, will almost over-night make millions of our lowest-paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products….  I think that far-sighted businessmen already understand and agree with this policy.… The average businessman knows that a high cost of living is a great deterrent to business and that business prosperity depends much upon a low-price policy which encourages the widest possible consumption.  As one of the country's leading economists recently said, 'The continuance of business recovery in the United States depends far more (up)on business policies, business pricing policies, than it does on anything that may be done, or not done, in Washington.'"   (October 12,1937 radio speech to the nation, commonly called "fireside chat.")   is a great deterrent to business=discourages business and trade; consumption=buying of products and services; economists=experts on trade and business growth.